Life

Deep Burgundy

4 July 2015 9:00 am

‘There lies the dearest freshness deep down things’ — and also the dearest Frenchness. It is easy to be rude…

Due diligence

4 July 2015 9:00 am

No doubt you, too, have had the feeling, upon glancing at an article in a paper picked up in a…

Battle for Britain

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

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Magnus toppled

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Last week, world champion Magnus Carlsen suffered a devastating defeat in the first round of the Stavanger super tournament when…

No. 369

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

White to play. This is from Anand–Hammer, Stavanger 2015. White is a pawn up with a good position and his…

Court report

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

In Competition No. 2904 you were invited to take as your first line ‘There’s a breathless hush on the centre…

Your problems solved

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Q. The problem encountered by R.B. of Fareham (6 June) is similar to one I wish to avoid. I have…

Deep Burgundy

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

‘There lies the dearest freshness deep down things’ — and also the dearest Frenchness. It is easy to be rude…

High life

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Tempus sure fugit, and how. Twenty years ago, on Saturday 1 July 1995, monarchs from around the world descended on…

Long life

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

The Eurostar train descended gently into the Channel Tunnel, went halfway along it, and then stopped. There it remained for…

Long life

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

The Eurostar train descended gently into the Channel Tunnel, went halfway along it, and then stopped. There it remained for…

Low life

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Rachel Johnson, in last week’s Spectator diary, says that her husband says she only writes a book in order to…

Low life

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Rachel Johnson, in last week’s Spectator diary, says that her husband says she only writes a book in order to…

Due diligence

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

No doubt you, too, have had the feeling, upon glancing at an article in a paper picked up in a…

Real life

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

This much I know, I never want to live in an ‘executive home’, and neither do I want to live…

Giving up alcohol is not as much fun as I’d hoped

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Two months ago, I set myself the target of losing 11 pounds in time for the Spectator’s summer party on…

Giving up alcohol is not as much fun as I’d hoped

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Two months ago, I set myself the target of losing 11 pounds in time for the Spectator’s summer party on…

Just giving

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Seven years ago I wrote here about a site called Kiva.org. I had met the co-founder of this charity when…

High life

27 June 2015 9:00 am

Last Wednesday, 24 June, Pugs held a luncheon in honour of our first member to depart for the Elysian Fields,…

Low life

27 June 2015 9:00 am

Ninety-two readers (thank you!) sent accounts of their worst debacles on drink or drugs. I printed out each one and…

Real life

27 June 2015 9:00 am

Why won’t the middle classes shout at their dogs any more? My suspicion is that the bleeding heart liberals, having…

Long life

27 June 2015 9:00 am

It is nearly two years since the police were granted new powers to fine motorists for ‘hogging’ the middle lane…

Simply the best

27 June 2015 9:00 am

Nothing pleases the Royal Ascot crowd more than a winner for the meeting’s crucial supporter, the Queen. Imagine, then, the…

Bridge

27 June 2015 9:00 am

A feast of bridge is looming! Tromso in Norway is host to the Open European Championships starting on Saturday, and…

Tempus fugit

27 June 2015 9:00 am

In serious competitive chess the play is regulated by time limits for completion of the moves. In the mid-19th century,…